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Posted by Glen Id [70.41.246.139] on Wednesday, December 07, 2011 at 23:36:46 :
I need to try to give some more of the story of my aunts death and the endeavor to forgive by the participants of Japan and US.
Here are the names and ages.
Mrs. Elsie Mitchell age 26 also expecting
Jay Gifford age 13
Edward Engen age 13
Dick Patzke age 14
Joan Patzke age 13
Sherman Shoemaker 11
When the Japanese women, who were school girls at the time they were forced to make the mulberry paper that transported the bombs.Found out they had participated in killing kids their same ages. The women began folding paper cranes to signify remorse.
Couple that act and desire to receive forgiveness to the family s that were interned as American citizens because they were of Japanese decent there was the vehicle for some healing.
My Mother was involved with it until her death on Christmas two years ago.
Uncle Archie Mitchell the only one to survive the blast went to Vietnam as a missionary and worked in a lepersarium.
By then in the early 60s he was remarried and had two children. The Vietcong killed several people and captured Archie and a nurse. They became some of the first POWs of the soon to be war.
There are some documentary s on the balloon bomb event that have been on public tv.